Monday- Gone for Honor band
- Republican Philosophy
- Trickle down Theory
- Give tax breaks to the rich, and by helping them, that prosperity will help the middle and lower class people because there will be more jobs because the rich who own businesses are doing well
- Laissez- Faire
- You can do whatever you want as long as you are not causing any trouble
- Rugged individualism
- It is up to YOU to do things
- Normalcy
- Trickle down Theory
- Teapot Dome- Scandal
- A rock formation in Wyoming
- The US Navy had this land for their oil reserves
- Albert Fall (Secretary of Interior) took bribes from oil companies and sold land that he shouldn't have sold land to
- Fall leased the land that the Navy had oil under and sold it to two oil companies
- He took bribes from these two companies, which is why it is illegal
- Fall became very rich after this
- This all happened under Harding
Tuesday- Notes
- The "Roaring" Twenties
- GDP- Total amount of good and products produced by a country within a year
- 20's had a climbing number of GDP's
- GDP Per capita- Amount per person produced
- Made about $5,500 per year
- GDP- Total amount of good and products produced by a country within a year
- Buying On Credit
- "Buy now pay later"
- Stock Market was booming (buying on margin)
- DOW Jones
- The 10 Largest companies in the United States
- Stock market indicator
- High Tariff Policy
- Tariff is a tax on imported goods
- Progressives wanted to lower tariffs because it raise competition
- Republicans raise tariffs because they won't buy goods from other countries
- buy American goods be foreign products are expensive
- Era of "Permanent Prosperity"
- As long as everyone has faith, everything will be fine"
- Warren Harding
- Known for having alcohol in the White House when the Prohibition was in effect
- Sneaking girls in the White House
- Wanted to "return to normalcy" which is the way things were before the war, isolation, focus on America
- Born in Ohio
- Died of disease as president , so his Vice President (Coolidge) became president
- Calvin Coolidge
- Nicknamed "Cool Cal" or "Silent Cal"
- Wanted the government to be less involved in people's lives
- Herbert Hoover
- Took the oath of office in March of 1929
- From West Branch, Iowa
- President at the time of the Stock Market Crash of the Great Depression
- Red Scare 1919-1920
- Karl Marx
- Father of Communism
- China, North Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos
- Militaristic, take away rights, rule through fear and intimidation, have to praise their leader
- Theory
- Everything will be equal
- Vladimir Lenin
- Died and Stalin took over (put a negative notation of communism)
- Palmer Raids (Mitchell Palmer)
- Communists destroyed homes and were deported because of the raids
- many were not guilty
- Assumed that all communists wanted to take over and rule the government
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- Italian immigrants that were convicted of a mass shooting
- Radicals (no government)
- were accused of shooting (even thought there wasn't evidence)
- Karl Marx
Wednesday- Notes
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- Italian immigrants that were convicted of a mass shooting
- Radicals (no government)
- were accused of shooting (even thought there wasn't evidence)
- Ku Klux Klan
- Ant- Catholic
- Still Christians (protestants)
- Anti- Black
- Immigration in the 1920's
- The Immigration Act of 1924 (National Origins Act/Asian Exclusion Act) greatly reduced immigration to US
- The Law was aimed at restricting immigration of Southern Europeans, Eastern Europeans, and Jews
- Severely restricted the immigration of Africans and prohibited the immigration of Arabs, East Asians, and Indians
- The Purpose of the act was "to preserve the ideal of American homogeneity"
- W.A.S.P.
- The Immigration Act of 1924 (National Origins Act/Asian Exclusion Act) greatly reduced immigration to US
- Harlem Renaissance
- Rebirth of Black people
- Jazz music
- Harlem, New York
- Marcus Garvey
- Arrested for stealing money
- but was remembered for movement in art, literature, music
Thursday- Notes
- Electricity
- Not having to light the house with candles
- magical holes in the walls
- People go into debt from buying cars and electrical products
- Automobiles
- better transportation
- Road regulations
- driveways
- more businesses because of better transportation
- Dating
- More vacations
- Living in Suburbs
Friday- Notes
- Airplanes
- Charles Lindbergh "Lucky Lindy"
- Survived many crashes
- Flew across the Pacific Ocean
- Entertainment
- Transportation of ammunition for WWI
- Amelia Earhart
- A nurse in WWI and took care of many pilots
- Circumnavigate around the world
- Charles Lindbergh "Lucky Lindy"
- Scopes Monkey Trials
- In 1925, Tennessee passed the first law making it illegal to teach evolution in school
- The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said it would defend any teacher willing to break the law
- John Scopes, biology teacher from Dayton, accepted
- Scopes taught evolution and was arrested
- Clarence Darrow was hired by the ACLU to defend Scopes
- William Jennings Bryan was the special prosecutor
- Scopes did not deny teaching of evolution
- Trial was really about evolution in schools
- The Age of Science V.S. Religion
- Getting Religion out of school
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